Collecting Visible Evidence

Name: Collecting Visible Evidence
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ISBN: 9780816631360

ISBN-10: 0816631360

ISBN-13: 9780816631360

Edition: 1999

Authors: Jane M. Gaines, Michael Renov

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List price: $22.50
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 7/1/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 7.25" wide x 10.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Bill Nichols is professor of cinema at San Francisco State University.Michael Renov is vice dean of academic affairs and professor of critical studies in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: "The Real Returns"




The Spectacle of Actuality




Embarrassing Evidence: The Detective Camera and the Documentary Impulse




Phenomenologies of the Surface: Radiation-Body-Image




Political Mimesis




Damming Virgil Thomson's Music for The River




Paradigms Lost and Found: The "Crisis of Representation" and Visual Anthropology




Domestic Ethnography and the Construction of the "Other" Self




The Parallax Effect: The Impact of Indigenous Media on Ethnographic Film




The Ethics of Intervention: Dennis O'Rourke's The Good Woman of Bangkok




They Said We Were Trying to Show Reality--All I Want to Show Is My Video: The Politics of the Realist Feminist Documentary




Loving Yourself: The Specular Scene in Sexual Self-Help Advice for Women




Toward a Phenomenology of Nonfictional Film Experience




A Bone of Contention: Documenting the Prehistoric Subject




Subjunctive Documentary: Computer Imaging and Simulation




History in a Flash: Notes on the Myth of TV "Liveness"




Documentary Horizons: An Afterword



Contributors


Index